Sunday, 14 February 2016

Call for Papers - The Ageless Agatha Christie

A One-Day Conference at the University of Exeter, Monday 20thJune 2016

Confirmed Keynote Speakers

Sophie Hannah, author of Hercule Poirot mysteries

Dr Mark Aldridge, Southampton Solent University

When Agatha Christie died in 1976, she was the acknowledged Queen
of Crime. The bestselling novelist and most successful playwright of the
twentieth century, she created the immortal detectives Hercule Poirot and Jane
Marple. Forty years after her death, her playThe
Mousetrapis in its seventh
decade in London’s West End, while the BBC’s And Then There Were Nonewas the most viewed television
drama on Boxing Day 2015. With continuation novels, apps and video games, and
big screen adaptations forthcoming, the Christie brand continues to adapt and
evolve.

This conference will consider Agatha Christie in the context of
adaptations and afterlives. We invite proposals for twenty-minute papers
relating to this theme in any way. Suggested topics include but are not limited
to:

Christie in the 21stcentury

Continuation and tribute novels

Fandom, fanfiction, and fan studies

Stage, Screen, or Radio legacy

The art of adapting

Christie as a fictional character

Graphic novels

New strategies, new readers

Politics and globality

LGBTQ+ readings and appropriations

Detective fiction today

Translation

National identity and heritage

Rediscovery and re-evaluation

Please email abstracts of around 200 words to the organisers Dr
Jamie Bernthal and Mia Dormer, at agathachristieconference@gmail.comno later thanMonday 29thFebruary 2016. We also invite
unorthodox or creative approaches to the theme.